Product Description
Grado Labs, the family-owned American headphone manufacturer founded in 1953 and operating from its original Brooklyn location, announces the Classic Series, a newly defined lineup bringing together several of the company’s most recognizable headphone models. The Classic Series introduces a clearer structure within the Grado headphone lineup, joining the Signature Line and Wireless Series as part of the company’s evolving product ecosystem. Together, these three series define the modern Grado headphone lineup, each serving a distinct role within the company’s evolving product family.
While these models have long been central to the Grado story, the Classic Series now brings them together under a single banner representing decades
of design and listening philosophy. For many listeners, these headphones marked the beginning of their journey into high-fidelity listening.
With the introduction of the Classic Series, these models incorporate Grado’s X2 driver platform along with updated cable assemblies and refined build components—continuing the company’s tradition of evolving its products while remaining true to the sound that has defined Grado for generations.
Listeners seeking detachable cable designs will find them in the Signature Line, while the Classic Series continues Grado’s traditional hard-wired construction.
The X2 Driver Platform
At the center of the Classic Series is Grado’s X2 driver platform, developed to deliver improved consistency, control, and refinement, with greater clarity, extension, and balance while preserving the lively presentation that has long distinguished the company’s headphones.
The X2 platform represents a further evolution of Grado’s longstanding driver architecture, refined through extensive development and listening evaluation. The result is a presentation that balances clarity, dynamics, and openness while maintaining the immediacy and musical energy that have made the company’s headphones recognizable to listeners around the world.
Each model is tuned in relation to its housing, resulting in an open, dynamic, and engaging presentation across the lineup.
Updated Build Components
Alongside the introduction of the X2 driver platform, the Classic Series incorporates updated build components designed to improve durability, flexibility, and long-term listening comfort. All Classic Series models feature Grado’s newly developed Signature cable design, building on developments first introduced in the Signature Line. Engineered to be lighter, softer, and more flexible while maintaining signal integrity,
the updated cables improve handling and durability while remaining true to Grado’s traditional hard-wired construction.
Classic Series models also incorporate refined headband designs, developed to enhance comfort and long-term durability while maintaining the familiar aesthetic that has defined the brand for decades. Every Classic Series headphone continues to be assembled in Brooklyn, New York, reflecting the company’s commitment to maintaining its long-standing manufacturing traditions while continuing to refine its products.
